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to me an "ace" is a disc thrown from tee pad into basket. that is the bottom line. it comes down to personal opinion if you want to claim an ace after throwing 10 discs and finally get one in the basket while on a practice/ casual round. what good does it do to try and put regulations on such a thing, its only good for bragging rights. "hey dude, i got 10,938 aces!!" who cares really.

if somebody tells me they have a certain number of aces, i take them at their word. it only really matters to them, it shouldnt have any effect on anybody else how many aces they have.

to me it doesnt matter if anybody sees or not, all that matters is that i know my disc went into the basket from being thrown from the tee pad.

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to me it doesnt matter if anybody sees or not, all that matters is that i know my disc went into the basket from being thrown from the tee pad.

Same here. I have a few unwitnessed aces, all on holes <200'. When someone (usually jokingly) questions the validity of my aces I always reply, "I've I was making it up, don't you think I would have picked a tougher hole?"

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I say Ace's can be gotten in an Ace Race/Birdie Bash formats.
Or on the first throw off the tee pad during a round.
I don't believe in an Ace on your 7th throw while practicing.
It's an Ace but not a "register-able" ace IMO.

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Aces mean something different to everybody, I suppose. Some people think they're cool, and that's that. Others obsess and try to rack up as many as possible. To each, their own. I don't see any problem with "registering" any ace on DGS - it's not as if it's an official record that means anything.

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you mean the one where it skips off the ground and goes in the basket? first ace i ever got on a basket was one of those... and i got super reliable witnesses (not that i think that matters one freaking iota)...

... i was just gonna say, tho, it's not an ace unless you gouge your name in the fresh powdercoat...

"'There are two mantras.,' Bernard said, 'Yum and yuk. Mine is yum.'"
Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker

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I witnessed a killer ace a few days ago at Lunchtime, dude threw a wicked tomahawk on hole 7, it hit the ground next to the basket and bounced in. That should certainly count. And why not a skip-in? Or a roller? Or a roller bouncing off of a temporary orange fence and then into the basket, as Dave Feldberg is purported to have done.

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IMO, an ace is first shot off the tee box that rests in the basket, per PDGA rules, during a scoring round (Casual or tourney).
An "ace" that goes in after throwing multiple discs would be a "practice shot ace", or "cubby" ace, named after the guy that has hundreds of "aces" throwing his entire bag and then some on 140' holes somewhere back east.
If someone asks me how many aces I have, I always answer making the distinction between the two. A skip ace is a real ace in a scoring round first shot off the tee. Nothing wrong with that. In ball golf, it's still an ace even if it bounced 4 times before going in to the hole.

Basket thieves

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An "Ace" is a first throw. The only exception for that would be a second throw in a cali round.
If I get an "ace" on a second or third throw, likely in a practice round, I call it a "Hole-In-One", not an ace.

With that said, I probably have ~40+ aces and ~15+ Hole-In-Ones.

Brody Cannon
PDGA #34008

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An "Ace" is a first throw. The only exception for that would be a second throw in a cali round.
If I get an "ace" on a second or third throw, likely in a practice round, I call it a "Hole-In-One", not an ace.